The dedication takes place on Hollywood Blvd. in front of the El Capitan Theatre in California.

1998:

Disney's 1949 live-action film So Dear To My Heart is released on video.

Today is Spirit of Mickey Day in Marceline, Missouri (Walt Disney's boyhood hometown). Hosted by the Walt Disney Company, it features personal appearances by Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto and Goofy.

1865:

A 21-year-old Englishman and illustrator named Edward Whymper, along with a

group of climbers, become the very first to reach the summit of the Matterhorn, the

most famous peak in the Swiss Alps. A mountain in the western part of the Alps on the border

between Switzerland and Italy, the Matterhorn's summit is 14,690 feet high. (Walt Disney and his family will visit

the neighboring village of Zermatt during the 1950s. His love of the area will later inspire the 1959 live-action film

Third Man on the Mountain and the classic Disneyland Matterhorn bobsled ride.)

1928:

Actress Nancy Olson is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her Disney credits

include Pollyanna as Nancy Furman, The Absent-Minded Professor as Betsy Carlisle, Son of

Flubber as Elizabeth 'Betsy' Brainard, and Snowball Express as Sue Baxter. Olson also

makes a brief, uncredited cameo appearance in the 1997 re-make of The Absent-Minded

Professor titled Flubber (starring Robin Williams).

1934:

Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon The Flying Mouse is released. Directed by David Hand, it is considered a significant cartoon for the Disney Studios, as it marks a big step forward in creating a real personality for an animated character.

1946:

Original Mouseketeer - and the youngest male to audition to be

a Mouseketeer - Carl "Cubby" O'Brien is born in Burbank, California.

The youngest of three sons of Haskell "Hack" O'Brien, a well-known professional drummer, young Carl got his

nickname "Cubby" from his mom.At age five, he began playing drums while attending the Carl Babcock Music

School in Sherman Oaks, California. At the age of 8, O'Brien was playing in a Dixieland band at a Screen Actors

Guild benefit, when Disney producers spotted him and invited him to audition for Mickey Mouse Club. After 3

seasons of Mickey Mouse Club, Cubby became a full-time working drummer performing with acts like The

Carpenters, Debbie Reynolds, and Andy Williams and on the hit TV variety series The Carol Burnett Show. Years

later he performed on Broadway for such productions as The Producers, Gypsy, and Chicago and even a touring

version of Beauty and the Beast.

1965:

Disney's live-action feature film The Monkey's Uncle, starring Tommy Kirk (his last Disney film) and Annette Funicello, is generally released. College whiz-kid Merlin Jones (Kirk) concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, then creates a flying machine of his own design, ultimately raising havoc on the campus. The film features the motion picture debut of the Beach Boys, who back Funicello on the title song - written by the Sherman Brothers. (The Monkey's Uncle is a sequel to the 1964 feature The Misadventures of Merlin Jones.)

A new daytime harbor show called "The Legend of Mythica" debuts as part of Tokyo DisneySea Park’s 5th Anniversary celebration.

1999:

The Disney Wonder departs from Venice, Italy (where she was built) enroute to Port Canaveral, Florida.

1913:

Gerald Rudolph Ford, the 38th president and 40th vice president of the United States, is born in Omaha, Nebraska. Raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he visited Disney World in 1979. Visit Mr. Ford and all the presidents at Disney World's classic attraction The Hall of Presidents.

1955:

Final construction and preparation take place in Anaheim on Walt's new theme park (just 3 days before Disneyland's grand debut). During a test ride, Disneyland's Casey Jr. Circus Train almost tips backward while traveling uphill! Lead weights will be added to the front, allowing it to temporarily run on the park's grand opening day. (On July 18 the attraction will close allowing the steep uphill grade to be reduced.) Over in Tomorrowland, final details are added to the Disneyland Moonliner Rocket. A worker suspended from a crane 76 feet above the ground places the pointed silver top of the rocket in place.

Joann Killingsworth was Disneyland's very first Snow White. She was a part-time sales clerk at the Neiman-Marcus department store in Newport Beach, California when she was found through a Disney nationwide search!

In Memory of Dal McKennon (1919-2009)

"We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun - together." -Walt Disney

1919:

Animator and teacher Walt Stanchfield is born in Los Angeles, California. He began

his career in animation in 1937 at the Charles Mintz Studio and then later at the Walter Lantz Studio prior to his

lengthy tenure at The Walt Disney Studios. In the 1970s, Stanchfield focused his efforts on establishing a training

program for new animators along with veteran animator and director Eric Larson. Stanchfield worked on every

full-length animated feature from the 1948 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad through the 1986 The Great

Mouse Detective. In the mid-1980s, he also taught weekly gesture drawing classes for the entire studio. His

weekly lecture notes and drawings are now gathered and published in a two-volume collection entitled Drawn to

Actor Dallas R. McKennon (often credited as Dal McKennon) passes away just 5 days short of his 90th birthday in Washington. Known primarily as a voice actor, his Disney credits include Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Mary Poppins, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks. McKennon also provided the voices for many Disney attractions such as the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad safety announcement, Ben Franklin's voice in Epcot's American Adventure, and the voice of Zeke in the Country Bear Jamboree. (McKennon was also the original voice of Gumby for Art Clokey's 1950s stop motion clay animation. Although not a Disney production, his best-known live action role was that of the innkeeper, Cincinnatus, in the Daniel Boone TV series starring Fess Parker.)

"Hold on to your hats and glasses... this here's the wildest ride in the wilderness!" -McKennon

1994:

The 13th Walt Disney World Wine Festival, featuring wines of 75 winemakers and

food prepared by Disney chefs, kicks off for 3 days at Yacht and Beach Club

Walt Disney Pictures releases the fantasy adventure film The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, the story (although very different) is loosely based on the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment in Disney's Fantasia. Balthazar Blake (played by Nicolas Cage) is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath (Alfred Molina). Unable to do it alone, Blake recruits Dave Stutler (Jay Baruchel), a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as his reluctant apprentice.

1981:

The first edition of Walt Disney's World of Ice premieres. A joint effort between Disney and Feld Entertainment® (the largest provider of live family entertainment in the world), the show features Olympic skaters.

"I’ve traveled all over the world since the Mickey Mouse Club and have had the

opportunity to meet many notable celebrities and entertainers. It’s funny because they always seemed to introduce

me as Mouseketeer Cubby. There wasn’t a show that went by that someone didn’t come backstage and would tell me

how much of an impact we had on them, since they grew up watching the show." -Cubby O'Brien (2010)

1962:

Meet Me at Disneyland (a limited TV series broadcast live on KTTV directly from the

Disneyland Paris celebrates Bastille Day with colorful parades and spectacular air displays. Known in France as Fête Nationale, Bastille Day officially commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, which was held on the one-year anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, a Parisian prison that at the time housed only a handful of inmates but which had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs.

2007:

From 11:00am to 5:30pm, the France Pavillion at Epcot hosts a variety of activities to celebrate Bastille Day (a national holiday in France).

July 14

2017:

Disney's D23 Expo kicks off (for 3 days) in Anaheim. This day's events include the Disney

Legends Awards ceremony hosted by Bob Iger. This year's inductees include the late Carrie Fisher (best known by